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There is a philosophy behind a lot of film criticism stating that it doesn’t matter what the director intends, it only matters what he puts on the screen. For example if a director intends a long complicated sequence involving ice cream melting and sun’s rays to not be about the oppression of summer but of childhood lost, but all you see is images of summer than it is your right as a viewer to interrupt it that way. I usually think this philosophy is sound and I try to not read a lot of director interviews if they are talking about a film I haven’t seen yet. However this is not a blanket philosophy and for some directors you want them to explain what the f they put on-screen. They usually make very insular films that only sometimes include complex plots and vapid characters. I am obviously talking about Godard…